Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting.

I never really followed grunge.

Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.

By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.

I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.